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Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us.60492 12:30 pm Bay Area premier of “Growing Resistance” and panel discussion @ New Parkway Theater Bay Area premier of “Growing Resistance” and panel discussion @ New Parkway Theater Mar 13 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Join us for the Bay Area premier of Growing Resistance and panel discussion Growing Resistance, takes you to ground zero of extraction in California and shows first-hand how the drought, fracking, and climate change are impacting communities and exacerbating existing health issues, water scarcity, and poor air and water quality. As the film shows, the Central Valley’s history of resistance hasn’t faded. Communities are rising up against the direct impacts they face and a hypocritical Governor who claims to be a “climate leader.” Don’t miss the premier of Growing Resistance … Continued 2:00 pm Organize for a moratorium on evictions and rent increases! @ Geoffrey’s Inner Circle Organize for a moratorium on evictions and rent increases! @ Geoffrey’s Inner Circle Mar 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Organize for a moratorium on no fault evictions and rent increases in Oakland! We have a housing state of emergency here. Residents from a number of community groups attended the City Council’s Rules and Legislation Committee, calling on the committee to support a temporary “moratorium on evictions and on rent increases until the City has developed and implemented strategies that protect and expand access for Oakland residents to affordable housing.” After listening to community speakers, the committee agreed to put the “state of emergency” on the agenda for the April … Continued 3:00 pm CANCELLED: Open Circle: Now Meeting Once a Month on the 4th Sunday. @ Omni Commons CANCELLED: Open Circle: Now Meeting Once a Month on the 4th Sunday. @ Omni Commons Mar 13 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Now meeting once a month, on the fourth Sunday, instead of twice a month. 59204 4:00 pm Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining Mar 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Tickets The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome. OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a … Continued 6:30 pm Solidarity with revolutionary Rojava! @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Solidarity with revolutionary Rojava! @ Niebyl-Proctor Library Mar 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In Rojava, Kurds brought a new life to an archaic communal form. Equality for women became a crucial aspect of a social revolution. See “Witnessing Revolution in Rojava” by Paul Z. Simons in current issue of News & Letters (newsandletters.org). It is a contrast to the crucible of death that Syria has become at the hands of old counter-revolutionary nationalisms and imperialisms, the most vile of which is the Islamic State. All state players are united in trying to erase the revolutionary humanist challenge to Assad awoken by Arab Spring. … Continued	12:30 am “Growing Resistance” Film Showing @ New Parkway Theater “Growing Resistance” Film Showing @ New Parkway Theater Mar 14 @ 12:30 am – 2:30 am Tickets In California’s Central Valley, there is a crisis. Not only are communities running out of water, but over the last few years, they’ve seen an increase in dangerous forms of drilling for oil and gas. To make matters worse, the historic drought fueled by climate change is exacerbating existing health issues, water scarcity, and poor air and water quality. Luckily, the Central Valley’s history of resistance hasn’t faded. Communities are rising up against a hypocritical Governor who claims leadership on issues that are hurting communities in California today. Join us … Continued 3:00 pm Documentary and Public Forum on Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities @ Ed Roberts Campus, across from Ashby BART Documentary and Public Forum on Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities @ Ed Roberts Campus, across from Ashby BART Mar 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:45 pm Tickets With filmmakers Emmitt Thrower and Leroy Moore, and also La Mesha Irizarry, Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia, and David Perry. The documentary “Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder” chronicles disabled victims murdered by police as well as the activists/artists who have fought and are fighting against police brutality against people with disabilities. Emmitt H Thrower, a retired NY City cop turned artist/filmmaker, Leroy Moore, founder of Krip Hop Nation, La Mesha Irizarry, founder of the Idriss Steeley Foundation, and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia of Poor Magazine intend the film as a tool … Continued 6:00 pm Community Meeting Against Coal @ West Side Missionary Baptist Church Community Meeting Against Coal @ West Side Missionary Baptist Church Mar 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Oakland has long been a center for highly polluting transportation activities. This has resulted in disproportionately high health impacts for the residents of West Oakland. Our goal is to systematically reduce the level of pollution caused by all these polluting activities, and we have definitely had some success. But we can’t afford to allow brand new pollution, in the form of coal dust, to further threaten our health.60516 6:00 pm Occupy Forum: Fascism: What It Is, and How to Fight It @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Occupy Forum: Fascism: What It Is, and How to Fight It @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, across from 16th St. BART Mar 14 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OccupyForum presents Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!Fascism: What It Is, and How to Fight It With Gerald Smith Capitalism is in trouble. Therefore, conditions are being recreated that are nourishing a reborn fascist movement. This, in spite of the fact that internationally, the fascists were thoroughly defeated and discredited by the end of World War II. How is this possible? First, after several generations, participants and witnesses to the struggle against fascism … Continued 7:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Berkeley Copwatch Meeting @ Grassroots House Mar 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Meetings held Mondays at 7:00 PM Excepting Monday March 7, when we will meet at 8:15 PM. Come one, come all! VOLUNTEER NOW!!! If you would like to go out on Copwatch shifts, work in our office, create art, become a Know Your Rights Trainer or help us out in other ways, WE NEED YOU! Send us an e-mail, subscribe to our email list, call our office or just come to our weekly meetings on Mondays, 2022 Blake Street, Berkeley or our weekly office hours on Wednesdays from 6:00pm – … Continued 7:00 pm Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room Mar 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued	9:00 am APTP Press Conference for Richard Perkins APTP Press Conference for Richard Perkins Mar 15 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am Tickets Justice for Richard Perkins — Anti Police-Terror Project Successfully Demands Coroners Report for Perkins Family On November 15th, 2015, Richard Perkins became the final victim of an Officer Involved Shooting in Oakland last year. While watching a side show, Mr. Perkins attempted to show OPD officers that he had a replica toy pellet gun. He was shot to death in response. Four months later, the family of Richard Perkins had not received the coroners report – a critical piece of evidence that can either support, or dispute the claims of … Continued 5:00 pm E 12th St. City Council Vote – Rally @ Oakland City Hall E 12th St. City Council Vote – Rally @ Oakland City Hall Mar 15 @ 5:00 pm – 10:15 pm Tickets BREAKING #Oakland city council forwarding exclusive agreement with UrbanCore for E12th parcel to full city council for 3/15 vote. #SaveE12th — E12 Peoples Proposal (@PeoplesProposal) March 3, 2016 City Hall is failing too address Oakland’s housing crisis. While thousands of working class families of color see their rents rise or face eviction, our elected officials are selling off public lands to private developers. After a hundred people testified last week in support of A People’s Proposal in a public hearing on the future of the E 12th parcel, City Council … Continued	6:00 pm Berkeley Climate Action Coalition Dinner – Free @ Ed Roberts Campus, across from Ashby BART Berkeley Climate Action Coalition Dinner – Free @ Ed Roberts Campus, across from Ashby BART Mar 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join our keynote speaker, internationally acclaimed urban planner James Rojas of PLACE IT! for an interactive and inspiring evening re-envisioning our water infrastructure in response to climate change. We’ll use everyday objects and our creativity to design a different water future. Invite friends, colleagues, and neighbors and keep growing our local climate movement! RSVP HERE Dinner served at 6 PM. RSVP: Email rebecca@ecologycenter.org by Thursday, March 10 to reserve a meal. 60576 6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Oakland Privacy Working Group: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons Mar 16 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays (cell phone interceptors) being acquired by law enforcement agencies, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, especially by Alameda County and the Oakland City Council. We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments. OPWG originally came together to fight … Continued 7:30 pm Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance Mar 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Reach out to aptpinfo@gmail.com if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas, etc. — Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country. We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.60565	5:00 pm Berkeley Copwatch: JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: MASS COPWATCHING Berkeley Copwatch: JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: MASS COPWATCHING Mar 17 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: MASS COPWATCHING · Friday March 11, 8 PM – 11 PM · Thursday March 17, 5 PM – 7 PM · Saturday March 26, 8 PM – 11 PM Since October 2015, Berkeley Copwatch has been holding “mass copwatch” events that invite folks to join us for a shift. It’s been fun and very empowering to have a group of copwatchers patrolling our city and on the scene when police stop people. This month we have three shifts scheduled. The Thursday shift will likely be … Continued 5:00 pm No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project No Coal in Oakland Meeting @ West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Mar 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets We encourage all Oakland residents to attend the weekly No Coal in Oakland meeting. Up until its February 16th meeting, the position of a majority of Oakland City Council members on permitting coal shipment from the city’s port may have been in doubt. Even now the proposal remains on the table. But at that meeting, council members took concrete steps toward banning coal exports once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Libby Schaff, local clergy, State Senator Loni Hancock, and community activists, the Council has signaled its … Continued 8:00 pm Film Screening: Shelter – Sponsored by Homes Not Jails @ Longhaul Film Screening: Shelter – Sponsored by Homes Not Jails @ Longhaul Mar 17 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Homes not Jails will be screening Shelter: a Squatumentary and hosting a panel of squatters 3/17 @ 8pm, @Longhaulinfo plz join us!— homesnotjailsSF (@SFHNJ) March 7, 2016 60608	7:00 am The Public Will Not Be Left Behind: Sunrise Ceremony at Lake Merritt @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater The Public Will Not Be Left Behind: Sunrise Ceremony at Lake Merritt @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater Mar 18 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am Tickets “City leaders were determined to push this (Urban Core proposal for a luxury housing tower with a segregated building with some nominally affordable units) forward, even if it meant leaving the public behind.” – KTVU Reporter after Tuesday’s City Council Meeting While the displacement of longtime Oakland residents has already reached crisis proportions (25% of Black Oakland has been displaced in the past 10 years alone), the corporate interests who are driving this crisis are just getting started. This week’s City Council meeting made it clear that our elected officials … Continued 10:00 am Action to Stop Bank Funded Displacement Action to Stop Bank Funded Displacement Mar 18 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Tickets The fight for Pastor Yul Dorn isn’t over! Banks continue to play a large role in displacing long time residents from San Francisco. Join us and demand that Chase bank reverse the foreclosure of Pastor Dorn and hold other banks accountable for funding and fueling displacement!60675 11:00 am A Call For Justice! Black and Brown Unity Against Police Impunity @ San Francisco City Hall A Call For Justice! Black and Brown Unity Against Police Impunity @ San Francisco City Hall Mar 18 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets It is time for black and brown to come together and demand justice for our communities. The decision in the Alex Nieto Case was a travesty of justice. We must come together and tell SFPD, The Mayor and The City Attorney’s Office that we shall not be moved until we get justice for Alex Nieto, Amilcar Perez Lopez and Mario Woods. We are now one in this struggle! These officers have been joking about getting away with killing Alex Nieto and making threats against the Nieto family on Social Media. Unless … Continued 11:00 am Justice 4 Mario Woods & Alex Nieto March @ San Francisco City Hall Steps Justice 4 Mario Woods & Alex Nieto March @ San Francisco City Hall Steps Mar 18 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Tomorrow!! Justice 4 Mario Woods & Justice for Alex Nieto !!! pic.twitter.com/yV92Xm7uO3— Equipto (@EQUIPTO) March 17, 2016 60673 7:00 pm FCCO MOVIE NIGHT – KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON @ First Congregational Church of Oakland (United Church of Christ) FCCO MOVIE NIGHT – KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON @ First Congregational Church of Oakland (United Church of Christ) Mar 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets MOVIE NIGHT (Free Movie! Free Prizes! Free Popcorn!) Doors: 6:00PM – Event: 7:00PM KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is an inspiring documentary which depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy. Justin, fighting a debilitating case of … Continued 7:00 pm Film: Here Come the Videofreex @ Big Roxie Film: Here Come the Videofreex @ Big Roxie Mar 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets 3/18 – Q&A with Mary Curtis Ratcliff, moderated by BAVC 3/19 – Q&A with Mary Curtis Ratcliff, moderated by Gabriel Saloman, musician and artist In the 1960s and 70s, a group of renegade journalists known as the Videofreex democratized the future of the media as they deployed the first handheld video cameras to report and observe the world around them. In HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX, directors Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin tap into a treasure chest of restored tapes shot by the Freex, including interviews with icons like murdered Black … Continued	11:00 am Richmond: Rally and Mobilization for Rent Control/Just Cause/Homeowner Protections @ Nevin Community Center Richmond: Rally and Mobilization for Rent Control/Just Cause/Homeowner Protections @ Nevin Community Center Mar 19 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Tickets Here’s our first opportunity to pick up petitions for the signature-gathering phase of the campaign!60638 2:00 pm Some Mother’s Daughter – No to Poverty, Violence and Criminalization @ Redstone Building, Rm 302 Some Mother’s Daughter – No to Poverty, Violence and Criminalization @ Redstone Building, Rm 302 Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets Hear now a campaign led by sex workers working with formerly incarcerated people and others, got the victim compensation law changed so sex workers can now get compensation for rape and other violence3 on the job, and people on probation or parole can get compensation if they are victims of crime. Learn how to press for implementation and further changes. Learn about exciting gains the local, national and international movement for decriminalization of sex work. Keynote speaker Margaret Prescod, host of Pacifica Radio’s “Sojourner Truth.” Speakers from All of Us … Continued 2:30 pm Alameda City Rent Control Ballot Initiative Petition Drive Training and Kickoff @ Firefighters' Hall Alameda City Rent Control Ballot Initiative Petition Drive Training and Kickoff @ Firefighters' Hall Mar 19 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS to gather the THOUSANDS OF VOTER SIGNATURES required to put our Charter Amendment on the NOVEMBER BALLOT! THIS MEANS BOOTS ON THE GROUND! THIS MEANS YOU! IT’S TIME TO STEP UP and show your support. A HUGE THANK YOU to those who VOLUNTEERED last Saturday to serve as petition gatherers and receive training. WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED SO MUCH! For over two years ARC has advocated on behalf of RENTER PROTECTIONS AND COMMUNITY STABILITY. Countless hours have been invested in private meetings with City officials; researching public … Continued 4:00 pm Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area. @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, outside City Hall Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area. @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, outside City Hall Mar 19 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking advocating for Postal banking fighting modern day debtors’ prisons … Continued

Week of March 13

About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.